Emil Johnsen

Emil Johnsen

Born: May 26, 1978
in Norway
A Scandinavian actor known for Corridor (2012) Ego ( 2013 ) and Guidance ( 2009 ). He grew up in Botswana, Africa with five elder siblings, and parents working as doctors. His English/German/Jewish mother, and Norwegian father, brought their big family from urban city life to the rural African villages of Maun and Molepolole, where Emil spent most of his childhood and early teenage years. His interest for acting started already as a young boy when he starred in the school theatre plays and his mother came from a family of Jewish actors, artists and musicians, but after the war they were spread all over the world. Coming back to Norway as a teenager, Emil started to pursue his acting career, and he left for New York City and Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Movies for Emil Johnsen...

Kalak
Title: Kalak
Character: Jan
Released: March 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a "true" and "dirty" Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. Ultimately, he has to confront his father.
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Title: Gangs of Oslo
Character: Brynjar
Released: January 19, 2023
Type: TV
Policeman Moaz Ibrahim is forced into living a dangerous double life with the criminal gang Enemiez as an attempt to keep his shady past hidden from the outside world.
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Narvik
Title: Narvik
Character: Ordføreren
Released: December 25, 2022
Type: Movie
April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.
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BBQ & Apocalypse
Title: BBQ & Apocalypse
Character: Sofus
Released: June 3, 2021
Type: Movie
VI GÅR NED MED STIL OG ENGANGSGRILL is a short film that explores the human reaction to a climate crisis that seems unmanageable. A meteorologist is among the select few who get to join those in power and technology giants of a new planet. If he leaves, he leaves his partner and the small group of people who have given up hope and would rather continue the party.
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HIM
Title: HIM
Character: Eirik
Released: March 19, 2021
Type: Movie
HIM consists of three separate stories in one film. Harald (11) is a boy who constantly falls outside the group. He is not recognized either by friends, school or parents. Emil (30) is unemployed, he is angry and looks down on everyone else. Petter (60) is a Norwegian renowned scriptwriter who wants to make a film about the national hero Fridtjof Nansen. Two men and one boy, one day in Oslo, whom all experiences a social and emotional fall. The film discusses the male role in the contemporary Norway.
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Post-War
Title: Post-War
Released: November 21, 2020
Type: Movie
A city dweller moves through various routines and encounters throughout a single day. The gradually revealed circumstances point toward a crisis starting to unfold.
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The Cock-Swan
Title: The Cock-Swan
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: Movie
At her own premiere party, Anna is sexually harassed on the dance floor. The Cock-Swan outside the club now becomes a clear symbol of the patriarchy and Anna wants to destroy the sculpture.
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The Ice Cream Truck
Title: The Ice Cream Truck
Character: The Ice Cream Man
Released: August 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Mary moves back to her suburban hometown to find that the suburbs are scarier in more ways than she ever remembered.
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Framing Mom
Title: Framing Mom
Character: Mikkel
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: Movie
In the middle of her wedding reception, the doubtful bride Unn Tove finds a newborn baby girl abandoned in the hotel restroom. She turns her over to Child Services. 16 years later, a young and energetic girl shows up at her door step. It's Rosemari, the baby from the wedding. Together, they start investigating the circumstances leading to Rosemari's birth. They unravel a story about a young couple's unrestrained love, an eccentric ex-boxer with a taste for erotics, and a mother covering up her life's biggest secret. "Framing Mom" is a touching and funny story about how sex, lies and biology created a beautiful flower, Rosemari.
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All the Beauty
Title: All the Beauty
Character: David (33)
Released: June 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Sarah (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) and David (Magnus Crepper) meet for the first time in ten years when she arrives at his summer residence. David needs help finishing a play, which turns out to be a dramatization of their long, troublesome relationship. The film presents three love stories about seemingly different couples; all named Sarah and David, but played by different actors in respectively their 20s, 30s and 40s.
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Title: Occupied
Character: Eivind Birkeland
Released: November 19, 2015
Type: TV
In the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.
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Ego
Title: Ego
Character: Erik
Released: January 24, 2013
Type: Movie
For Sebastian Silverberg life is all about his appearance, partying and his enormous ego. Things are going smoothly when an accident leaves him blind, forcing him to re-evaluate his life and to seek meaning beyond appearances.
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All That Matters Is Past
Title: All That Matters Is Past
Character: Mads
Released: November 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past-and the menacing presence of William's pathologically jealous brother — in this haunting story from celebrated Norwegian director Sara Johnsen.
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Varg Veum - Black Sheep
Title: Varg Veum - Black Sheep
Character: Hans Hauge
Released: January 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Varg Veum promises his girlfriend that he will find her sister who has vanished.
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Cornelis
Title: Cornelis
Character: Eva
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
”Cornelis” is the unique chronicle about one of Sweden’s greatest music legends - Cornelis Vreeswijk. An honest and gripping account of an exceptionally talented, but self-destructive artist’s intense life both on and behind the stage. A man who during his whole life was searching for love and confirmation.
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Norwegian Ninja
Title: Norwegian Ninja
Character: Linsa
Released: August 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Norwegian Ninja is the true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway during the Cold War. In 1983 the Ninja Force discovers that the sinister NATO force Stay Behind, who take charge in times of war and emergency, are planning a coup-d'état in peacetime. Treholt and the Ninjas see only one solution: a full can of whoop-ass.
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Corridor
Title: Corridor
Character: Frank
Released: February 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, the intrusive Lotte, he realizes there is something wrong with the place. Each time he leaves his apartment, Frank is scared... the talkative concierge, the annoying child, the love-sick Lotte, her brutal ex-boyfriend and above all, her new jealous boyfriend, the scary Micke, they all seem to be Frank's enemies.
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Guidance
Title: Guidance
Character: Carl
Released: December 3, 2009
Type: Movie
Roy has lost his motivation and spends his days at home. Finally his wife can't take it anymore and sends him away on an alternative treatment. The method is ridiculous. Roy doesn't understand what he's doing there. The therapist is strange, so strange that Roy suspects that something is wrong. When he wants to leave, things get unpleasant for real.
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Upperdog
Title: Upperdog
Character: Jonas
Released: August 28, 2009
Type: Movie
As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.
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1944 The Final Defence
Title: 1944 The Final Defence
Character: Soldier
Released: December 7, 2007
Type: Movie
The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories.
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Title: Størst av alt
Character: Nico
Released: February 15, 2007
Type: TV
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Before You Hit the Ground
Title: Before You Hit the Ground
Character: Aston
Released: November 23, 2006
Type: Movie
It is supposed to be impossible to die in a dream. The common belief is that one always wake up before it happens. But, what if you can learn to control your dreams? Aston, who is haunted by his dead girlfriend, believes that if he manages to die in a dream, he will be able to see his girlfriend again and get a sneak peak of what is waiting in the afterlife. He discovers he can't attempt this dangerous task on his own. He meets Siri who is also willing to tempt death and becomes his accomplice.
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Title: Arkivet
Character: Kurt
Released: April 20, 2006
Type: TV
Arkivet was a Norwegian 10 episode drama/comedy series set in a hospital archive. The series was compared with The Office by some critics due to the "mockumentary" style but was actually developed before the British hit show. The first episode was watched by 74 000 viewers, but the rest of the series had an average of only 44 000 viewers.
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Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake
Title: Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake
Character: Lasse Schiefmaul
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: Movie
14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with Berra, he is found dead on a nearby parking lot.
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Softcom Worldwide
Title: Softcom Worldwide
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Anders works at a telemarketing company. He is ambitious and works hard, but it's difficult when he has a little son whose only wish is to go to Norway and meet his mother. And at the company they have to fire one person.